current observations

Month: February 2011

  • Flickr three :: wood

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    My wood finds are all via Flickr :: from top Cuba Gallery: Wood texture background – green grass – feet by Anderw @CubaGallery, Cuba Gallery: Wood texture by Andrew @CubaGallery, Wood Wounds by Jos van Wunnik

  • Reclaimed timber delights

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    I love wood and was reminded of this while trying to move our very own coffee table made from a nature-got-the-better-of-me slab – it’s very heavy. Practically every door in our house is wood and I love wood bowls, chopping boards and floors. I have a very heavy Oregon wood chair that I made at…

  • Flickr three :: stars

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    My starry finds are all from flickr – from top Stars by Ohad Ben-Yoseph, How Many Stars? by cobalt123 and Shooting Stars by Stefan Van der Straeten

  • Mariners stars (and not the baseball team)

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    So here’s what I find myself doing when I can’t get to sleep! I’m still stuck on stars this week and I’m fond of the mariner’s star (compass) especially in quilts. This is my latest Adobe Ideas scribble and although I’m not sure about the colour scheme I think the star has potential. I’ll see…

  • It’s in the stars

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    I love stars! I really do, especially when they’re red. What’s at the top of a Christmas tree – a star of course. I grew up in the country in a town devoid of city lights and one of our favourite pastimes was to lie in the garden on a moonless night and look and…

  • A Stylish Blogger Award!

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    Oh my goodness – what a surprise. My beautiful friend Jess from Brown Paper Bunny has nominated me for a Stylish Blogger Award. I am beyond flattered. So here’s how it works firstly  I need to honour Jess. She and I used to work together (at a law firm) and luckily for me we’ve remained…